Tim Anderson prevails — by a wide margin — as White Sox surplus value champion for 2018

With fewer than 20 games left in the season, I somewhat confidently predicted that Tim Anderson was the clear surplus value (SV) winner for the Chicago White Sox in 2018. And, thanks to the switch to the three-WAR averaging and a cut in WAR value of more than half (to $3,785,979.18), TA did end up winning going away.

But it almost wasn’t so easy. Had we stuck with using FanGraphs as the source for WAR and $/WAR, Anderson would have been overtaken with a strong push from ... Omar Narváez. In fact, per FanGraphs, both Narváez and Yoán Moncada finished better than Anderson in overall SV, at $16 million-plus and $15 million-plus, respectively (Anderson finished at $14.9 million).

But that’s not…